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These vibrating fields, their proponents claimed, served as "gates" via
which unending supplies of vacuum energy could be fed through
electronic circuits and put to use.
If they could be proven to work repeatedly and reliably, Puthoff said,
imagine it: no more pulling power off the national grid. You'd have a
reactor in a box in your backyard; a little thing the size of a microwave
oven that sucked energy from the space that it occupied and belted out
clean, unending power wherever it was needed. Initial machines would
feed power to your house, but later, as they developed in sophistication,
just as computers had developed exponentially at the end of the 20th
century, these devices would shrink in size and double in output; and
they'd keep on shrinking and doubling, over and over, until they'd be
small and powerful enough to put in cars or aircraft or submarines.
Applications would be limited only by the imagination of the user.
"If," I said. "You said, 'if.' "
"Ah, well, that's the point," he replied. "Of the 30-odd devices that have
come through this door, none has passed the magic test yet: a demonstrable
measurement of more energy flowing out than is flowing in."
But it would happen. Maybe tomorrow, maybe in 30 years. But for
sure, one day someone was going to announce that they'd invented a
machine that could extract energy from the immeasurable pulse of the
universe. It'd rate a paragraph in the news-briefs columns, but clip it or
keep the paper, mark it well, Puthoff said, because on that day the world
would change. Nothing would ever be the same again.
As he talked, Puthoff filled in the gaps in the résumé that I'd pulled off
the Net. Soon after gaining his master's degree at the University of
Florida, he went on active duty as a Naval Intelligence officer seconded
to the National Security Agency. When he left the Navy, he converted to
civilian status at the NSA, then went on sabbatical at Stanford University
in California to get his Ph.D. He gained his Ph.D. in 1967, resigned from
the NSA and soon afterward joined the Stanford Research Institute, a
spin-off from the university, set up, among other things, to pursue
heavily classified research for the U.S. defense and intelligence communities.
Puthoff's thing was lasers, but it was at SRI that he developed
the notion of the remote-viewing program for the CIA and the DIA. The
RV work formed the hub of the "heavily classified research" that he
undertook at SRI for the next 13 years.
I asked how he'd made the jump from lasers to remote viewing.
"It sounds weird, but it was a very straightforward thing," he said. In
the early 1970s, physicists were searching everywhere for evidence of